Description

Bantam Tools Desktop Milling Machines provide professional reliability and precision at an affordable price. Bantam Tools is exploring the frontier of professional desktop prototyping, fabrication, and manufacturing.

We empower our customers to make precision parts on the Bantam Tools Desktop PCB Milling Machine, saving them time and money. We open doors for them in terms of employment mobility and pathways to modern technical relevance through hands-on education.

Engineers use our products to fabricate their designs at the high speed of desktop iteration. Ultimately, we are building the future we want to see by empowering engineers and students with affordable, modern, professional-quality tools.

We are looking for a Product Manager for development of exciting new hardware-software consumer-oriented design tools.

Bantam Tools will be shifting operations from California to Peekskill, NY in late 2018. The ideal applicant will be comfortable working in the NYC and Hudson Valley areas and be enthusiastic to set the standard and culture when we open our Peekskill HQ in late 2018.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead multi-disciplinary teams developing hardware-software products through complete lifecycle, with focus on development and launch phases.

Lead teams of software developers, mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers.

Work with leadership to define product vision, strategy, roadmap, milestones and project timelines.

Work closely with leadership to make sure that product features meet larger company goals.

Identify and negotiate product trade-offs, and ward off scope creep.

Work with engineering teams to define technical requirements for hardware, electrical and software systems.

Drive a culture of transparency where leadership is made aware of progress and risks. Strong communication skills, and ability to be transparent about what’s going well and what’s not.

Strong project management skills: Ability to translate the roadmap into concrete tasks that are organized and assigned to various engineers. Ability to communicate closely with team members to assess a given individual’s workload, progress, blocks and areas where resources should be shifted in order to meet critical deadlines.

This is a full-time position in the NYC Hudson Valley region. Bantam Tools will be shifting operations from California to Peekskill, NY towards the end of 2018. The ideal applicant already lives in NY and would be willing to work in Peekskill, NY, with the possibility of visiting our CA offices before the move to work with our current R&D team.

Compensation is competitive, commensurate with experience, and includes benefits.